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Patented-Dec.l 23, 1890.

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ORDER-BOOK.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,189, datedDecember'QS, 1890.

Application filed October4, 1889. Serial No. 326,070. (No model.)

To all 1071/0711, it may concern:

Be it known that l, Honn'rro A. FOSTER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of New York city, New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Order- Books, of which the following is aVspecification.

My present invention relates to the construction of an order-book foruse in manufacturing establishments where blanks are filled in withcertain orders to install electric lighting in houses and towns andgiven to the men who are to carry out the order.

The invention is applicable to other books, also-as, for instance, tocoupon-books published by the Patent Office and containing orders forcopies of United State patents.

The object of the invention is to furnish a convenient means ofregistering when the order has been or has not been fulfilled, or whenit has or has not been partially fulfilled.

The invention is described with especial reference to its application tobooks from which orders are taken by electric light and power men whenthey are instructed to fit up a house with wiring or to install a plantin any given place.

The device is described by reference to the accompanying drawings, inwhich-- Figure l is a view in partial perspective oi' such a book, withthe cover partly broken away and with some of the orders omitted,showing the means of registering both as to partial fulfillment of'order and complete fulllment. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a complete leaffrom the order-book, in which the order is blank and is all ready to befilled in, but which order has not yet been torn from the book.

In the figures, a is the book.

l) is a complete leaf or sheet of the book, and consists of thecombination of a stub c, upon which a certain order may be registered.This order is repeated in the blank or order proper d. Between theorder-blank d and the stub c are one or two (two shown in the figures)or even more indicating-slips c and f. In order that at certain timesthe slips c and f may be torn from t-he stub with convenience, the paperis perforated by the holes represented by the dots g, 7L, and t',respectively. These holes are arranged in straight lines,

and may be called, therefore, perforated lines g, 7L, and t'.

Then the order-blank is filled out in any convenient manner and given tothe operator, it is first torn off from the sheet l) at the line t'. Thewords Construction not finished,7 or words to that effect, are printedupon Jeach stripffroin the beginning to the end of the book. As long asthis strip remains in the book attached to a particular stub itindicates that the construction of the plant requested by the order (lhas not been effected. When the operator reports, however, that theorder has been fulfilled the slip f is tornfrom the stub. On the slip eare printed the words Not started to burn, or words to that effect areprinted on each slip @from the beginning to the end of the book. Just assoon as the operator reports that the order has been also completed inregard to the fact that the electric lamps have been turned on and thesystem is in operation, then, and not until then, is the slip c tornfrom the stub. The strips c are therefore indicating-strips, in thatthey indicate by their presence that an order has not been fulfilled inpart or in whole, and by their absence that the order has to apredetermined extent been positively' carried out.

It is evident from the nature of the invention that the sheet b mayrepresent any kind of an order-such as that which has been intimated orsuch as a check or any thing in the nature of a written request-which isgiven by the owner of the book to another individual or party. The stubis merely for a memorandum of what has been written on the order. It isevident that the owner of the book may have printed upon theintermediate strips any suitable words calling attention to the factthat certain parts or all of the order has not been fulfilled. y

The particular words on the sheets shown in Fig. l indicate that partsof the order may be first printed in the book; but the particular wordstherein made do not have anything to do with my invention.

The strip c may be termed a permanent stub, as the same is for thepurpose of formin g a permanent memorandum, while for somewhat similarand apparent reasons the slips e and f maybe termed temporary stubs. Theconstruction is different in the two cascabe- IOO cause they are similaronly in having a stub. The similarity with the disclaimer in Smallspatent is found only in the stub and the coupon or order-slip. Thedifference consists in the fact that applicant has a slip or strip e,which is neither a stamp portion nor a coupon, nor an address portionnor a receipt portion. Itis a temporary stub or temporary memorandum, ortemporary indicating-slip, or, in general, means for indicating that theorder has not been fulfilled. As to what the slip indicates, an exampleis pointed out in the specification (applicants) on page 3, lines l5 to20, inclusive. The constructive difference is incorporated in theamended claims below.

I claim as my invention- 1. In an order-book, a sheet. consisting of thecombination of a stub c, attached to the book, and an order-blank d,attached to thesaid stub, indicating-slips containing the WordsConstruction not finished, or Words to a similar effect, and attached toboth the stub and the order-blank, the said sheet being provided withperforated lines between the said words or slips and both the said stuband the said order-blank.

2. In a blank order-book, the combination of three detachable slipsforming a perinancnt stub attached directly to the book, a temporarystub, for the purpose described, attached directly to the said rst stub,and an order or coupon attached directly to the temporary stub.

3. The hereinbefore-described method of indicating in a book havingcoupons and stubs the fulfillment or partial fulfillment of an order,such as an order to install and start an electric-light plant,consisting' in writing the order upon a coupon and one of the stubs of ablank-book at the time the order is given and tearing off or similarlyremoving another stub, said last stub being appropriately termed atemporary stub at the time when the fulfillment or partial fulllment ot'the order occurs or is reported.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this lst day of October, 1889.

HORATIO A. FOSTER.

Witnesses:

l EDWARD P. THOMPSON,

WILLIAM LANGDON.

